In this article, Zornitsa Peeva discusses how the eye played a mediatory role in Mesopotamian art and religion. She draws upon ancient Mesopotamian literature, artifacts, and art to emphasize the eye’s powerful role in Mesopotamian society and cosmology.
David DeFilippis’s research article analyzes how youth organizations were used to create the totalitarian states of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and the Soviet Union during the Interwar period.
In this article, Maria Kang discusses how traditional values and expectations of women prevailed despite popular media portraying the 1920s as an era of radical social change for women.
In this article, Sebastian Rosa examines the factors that caused the fall of the Japanese Imperial Court’s political authority and how the central government’s declining power led to the rise of the samurai in Japanese government and society in the twelfth century.
Roy Harel’s research article analyzes how synagogue zodiac mosaics, John Chrysostom’s polemical sermons, and late antique Near Eastern material culture reveal the fluidity of cultural association and identity of the Bet Alpha Jewish community as well as the extent of group differentiation in the Near East.